Man shot on video, cop acquitted

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

She wasn't as drunk and her pants weren't coming off? She was lucky.



This was like a field sobriety test, with screaming and death threats thrown in, and summary execution the penalty for failure.



As I said, I don't see the justification for full tactical response to this guy. They treated him like he was a proven psycho killer. All they had was a phoned-in report of seeing a gun. Not a report of shooting, and they had seen and heard nothing wrong.

I believe the full tactical response was because someone reported the man had a long gun of some sort.
Given recent occurrences and the location, I am not surprised they responded that way.
It was not like a sobriety test at all. The officers were responding to what was described to them as a man with a weapon in an area where there could be many potential victims.
I think the incident is tragic but I agree with Oerets, when there is a gun pointed at you, comply completely.